"Now what is the message there?The message is that there are no "knowns."There are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns." Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002Press Conference at NATO Headquarters,Brussels, Belgium CIA VeteranConfronts Rumsfeld "We know where they are." Oh, really? One audience member (later identified as 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern) comfronts Rumsfeld.

(Tiare Publications, Lake Geneva U.S.A. 1991)If you've ever ventured outside the shortwave broadcast and ham radio bands and tuned around the areas allotted to so-called "fixed" stations you may have heard voices reading out long lists of numbers in either four or five digit groups. These transmissions are generally called "numbers stations" and appear in a variety of languages. Transmissions in Spanish are heard most often in the United States but, in Europe, German, English and French, as well as a variety of Slavic languages are the most commonly heard.
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